Guinea Pigs Go to Court: Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan. Jobin, P. & Tseng, Y. In Boudia, S. & Jas, N., editors, Powerless Science?, of Science and Politics in a Toxic World, pages 170–192. Berghahn Books, 1 edition, 2014.
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This chapter describes the first two major cases of industrial diseases brought to justice in Taiwan, with the support of an original citizen mobilization and a network of lawyers. The first case was brought in the north of the island near Taipei. The 450 plaintiffs had been exposed to a wide range of organic solvents like trichloroethylene and other toxins while they were working for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a U.S. manufacturer of television sets. More than a thousand people identified with this case have developed various sorts of cancer. The second case was brought near Tainan, in
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	edition = {1},
	series = {Science and {Politics} in a {Toxic} {World}},
	title = {Guinea {Pigs} {Go} to {Court}: {Epidemiology} and {Class} {Actions} in {Taiwan}},
	isbn = {978-1-78238-236-2},
	url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qd0tj.13},
	abstract = {This chapter describes the first two major cases of industrial diseases brought to justice in Taiwan, with the support of an original citizen mobilization and a network of lawyers. The first case was brought in the north of the island near Taipei. The 450 plaintiffs had been exposed to a wide range of organic solvents like trichloroethylene and other toxins while they were working for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a U.S. manufacturer of television sets. More than a thousand people identified with this case have developed various sorts of cancer. The second case was brought near Tainan, in},
	urldate = {2023-03-30},
	booktitle = {Powerless {Science}?},
	publisher = {Berghahn Books},
	author = {Jobin, Paul and Tseng, Yu-Hwei},
	editor = {Boudia, Soraya and Jas, Nathalie},
	year = {2014},
	keywords = {6 Ignorance and public policies, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
	pages = {170--192},
}

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